CAPACITY BUILDING IN AGENCIES FOR EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
- 주제(키워드) Healthcare technology , Technology assessment , Biomedical , Capacity building , Health policy , Knowledge management
- 주제(기타) Health Care Sciences & Services
- 주제(기타) Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- 주제(기타) Medical Informatics
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
- 발행년도 2016
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000162078
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266462316000490
초록/요약
Objectives: Health technology assessment (HTA) yields information that can be ideally used to address deficiencies in health systems and to create a wider understanding of the impact of different policy considerations around technology reimbursement and use. The structure of HTA programs varies across different jurisdictions according to decision-maker needs. Moreover, conducting HTA requires specialized skills. Effective decision making should include multiple criteria (medical, economic, technical, ethical, social, legal, and cultural) and requires multi-disciplinary teams of experts working together to produce these assessments. A workshop explored the multi-disciplinary skills and competencies required to build an effective and efficient HTA team, with a focus on low-and middle-income settings. Methods: This proceeding summarizes main points from a workshop on capacity building, drawing on presentations and group discussions among attendees including different points of view. Results and Conclusions: The workshop and thus this study would have benefited from a larger variety of stakeholders. Therefore, the conclusions arising from the workshop are not the opinion of a representative sample of HTA professionals. Nonetheless, organizations and speakers were carefully selected to provide a valuable approach to this theme. Thus, these proceedings highlight some of the gaps and needs in the education and training programs offered worldwide and calls for further investigation.
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